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Robbing Peter to Pay Paul

Chip Conlin

At The Five O’Clock Club we talk about four ways to get interviews – networking, direct and targeted mail, answering ads, and working with search firms.  Our research and the experience of our members has shown that networking and the direct… Read more

Achieve Success through Effective Leadership

Robert Hellmann

Leadership skills are needed by everyone. In this article you’ll learn: why demonstrating leadership makes you a more valued employee; that leadership ability can be learned; how you can lead from any position or level in the organization,… Read more

A Focus on Direct Contact and Networking: The Most Effective Job-Search Techniques

John Fitzgerald

Most job hunters who are not Five O’Clock Clubbers search by contacting search firms or answering ads. But these stories from successful job hunters clearly bear out what our research shows: direct contact and networking are the two most effective… Read more

Forbes features The Five O’Clock Club: How To Choose Between More Than One Job Offer

Susan Adams

The prospect of choosing between multiple job offers may seem unlikely these days, given all the talk of joblessness and the real unemployment rate of 15.1% (counting people who have given up looking for work, and those working part-time who wish… Read more

How to Avoid the Resume Black Hole

Jacquelyn Smith Forbes

Have you spent countless hours writing, polishing and blasting your resume—only to find that it ends up in a black hole, where you’ve sent it to dozens or even hundreds of places and never heard a thing? Human resources people and hiring… Read more

Crossing the Goal Line

Chip Conlin

For Giants fans, today is certainly a day of celebration as the Giants won a stunning victory over the New England Patriots in Sunday’s Super Bowl. In anticipation of what I felt would be a closely fought battle between two very strong and… Read more

Four Techniques for Turning Job Interviews Into Offers

“Embarking on a job search can feel like skydiving. It seems like such a terrifying endeavor, as you throw yourself into the unknown!” Nancy Karas sometimes says this to her clients who are about to start job search. Nancy is a Senior Career… Read more

Becoming One of the New Professionals

Chip Conlin

In my past blogs I have written about the negative press we continue to read and hear about regarding the job market. We know the media continues to focus on the high unemployment rate, the bad economy, and the poor labor market for today’s… Read more

SUCCESSFUL JOB HUNTERS REPORT Renewable Energy . . . for a new career

Five O'Clock Club

When Mary Mooney first joined The Five O’Clock Club,” says Chip Conlin, Senior Five O’Clock Club Career Coach, “she knew the one thing that she did not want to do—and that was to practice law in the traditional way.” While Mary had… Read more

Unemployed Job Searchers Can Edge Out Those Employed Strategy and Time Management are Keys

Richard Bayer

Too many job hunters fall into the trap of believing it’s only the currently employed who get the best job offers quickly and command the highest salaries. Unemployed searchers may feel that they’ll get only second best. But research conducted… Read more